Livingstone Relations:  Descendants

compiled by Steve Wilson, last updated June 2, 2007.
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David Livingstone and Mary Moffat had six children.  Three of them, Agnes, Oswell, and Anna Mary, married and had families.  They are listed here.

Alexander Low Bruce & ---

• Alexander, son of Robert Bruce & Ann Low (b. 1839, Canongate)
1. c. 1865, dau. Agnes B. Bruce b. Islington, Middlesex, England
2. c. 1867, son Robert Bruce b. Islington, Middlesex, England
3. c. 1869, son Daniel G. Bruce b. Islington, Middlesex, England

Alexander Low Bruce & Agnes Livingstone

• Agnes, dau. of David Livingstone & Mary Moffat (b. 1847, Chonuane)
• 27 July 1875, m. Hamilton, Lanark, Scotland
  1. 1877, son David Livingstone Bruce b. Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland [d. c. 1915]
  2. 1879, dau. Mary Livingstone Bruce b. Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland [d. 1883]
  3. 1881, son Alexander Livingstone Bruce b. [m. Amy Sanderson by 1927]
  4. 1886, dau. Annie Livingstone Bruce b. [m. Thomas Bussell 1909]
• 27 Nov. 1893, Alexander Bruce d. Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
• 1912, Agnes Bruce d.
   
• Census Records:
• 1871, Islington, Middlesex (res. 3 Canonbury Pk S, Alexander L Bruce wd 31 brewery manager Edinburgh, Agnes B 5 Islington, Robert 3 Islington, Daniel G 1 Islington, sis Isabella B Thomson mar 38 Edinburgh, niece Annie B 16 Dalkeith, servant Mary Hannah 25 cook Kirkcudbright, servant Lavinia Carhew 21 nurse Pembroke)
• 1881, South Leith, Midlothian (res. 10 Regent Terr, Alexander L Bruce 41 brewer Edinburgh, Agnes L 33 Cape, Agnes B 15 England, Robert 13 England, David L 4 Edinburgh, Mary L 1 Edinburgh, servant Isabella Macray 23 housemaid Elgin, servant Margaret Sedgwick 20 nurse Edinburgh, servant Mary Devlin 40 cook Ireland)
• 1891, South Leith, Midlothian (res. 10 Regent Terr, Alexander L Bruce 51 brewer Edinburgh, Agnes L 43 Kuruman, David L 14 Edinburgh, Alex L 9 Edinburgh, Annie L 5 Edinburgh, servant Annie MacPherson 48 cook Cromdale, servant Agnes Fulton 40 nurse Auchterarder, servant Isabella Mackenzie 32 housemaid Logie Easter, servant James S MacRae 23 butler Edinburgh, servant Jessie Mentiplay 14 underhousemaid Addiewell)
• 1901, Edinburgh, Midlothian (res. 2 Rothesay Terr, Agnes Bruce 53 Kuruman, David L 24 lieutenant Edinburgh, Annie L 15 Edinburgh, servant Christina Adamson 51 cook Aberdour, servant Agnes Fulton 50 ladysmaid Auchterarder, servant Emma M Hawke 24 tablemaid England, servant Margaret McLean 19 kitchenmaid Brin, servant Christina McLeod 43 laundress Stornoway, Emily Sharp 22 housemaid Alloa, Joan Wilson 24 housemaid Whittinghame)

Agnes's father had taken her to Paris in 1865 to attend a Protestant English school for girls there.

(Sources:  AF, Blaikie, C1871E, C1881S, C1891S, C1901S, IGI, LivFT, MoffatJ)

William Oswell Livingstone & Catherine Jane Anderson

• Oswell, son of David Livingstone & Mary Moffat (b. 1851, River Zouga)
• Kate, dau. of Thomas Anderson & Ann Fisher (b. 1855, Dunoon & Kilmun, Argyll)
• 18 May 1875, m. Glasgow, Lanark, Scotland
1. 1878, dau. Kate Agnes Livingstone b. Glasgow, Lanark, Scotland [m. Gerald Hodgson 1897]
• 1892, Oswell Livingstone d. St. Albans, Hertford, England
   
• Census Records:
• 1891, St. Albans, Hertford (res. Church Crescent, Kate Livingstone wd 33 Dunoon, Kate A 13 Glasgow, sis Annie B Crossley wd 31 Glasgow, nephew James B 11 British Guiana, nephew Tom Anderson 9 British Guiana, servant Eliza Ann Aubrey 21 cook Braily, servant Minnie Irons 18 housemaid Harpenden)
• Unmarried children:
• 1881, census Barony, Lanark (res. 51 W. Regent St., Ann Anderson mar 52 fish merchant Crail, Helen H 20 shopwoman Glasgow, gd Kate A L Livingstone 3 Glasgow, servant Margaret G Adams 23 domestic Armadale)

Oswell Livingstone attended school at Gilbertfield, near Hamilton.  He accompanied the search expedition for his father led by Lt. Dawson in 1872. When they met Henry Stanley at Bagomoyo, returning from his successful meeting with David Livingstone, the expedition was abandoned.

(Sources:  Blaikie, C1881S, C1891E, LivFT, MoffatJ)

Frank Wilson & Anna Mary Livingstone

• Frank, son of John Wilson & Hannah Whitwell (b. 1852, Kendal)
• Anna, dau. of David Livingstone & Mary Moffat (b. 1858, Kuruman)
• 1881, m. Kendal, Westmoreland, England
1. 3 Nov. 1882, dau. Ruth Mary Wilson b. Kendal, Westmoreland, England [m. Alexander Macdonald 1920]
2. 1884, son Hubert Francis Wilson b. Kendal, Westmoreland, England [m. Mary Mackie 1923]
• 31 May 1910, Frank Wilson d.
• 1939, Anna Wilson d.
   
• Census Records:
• 1891, Kendal, Westmoreland (res. Castle Lodge, Frank Wilson mar 38 woolen manufacturer Kendal, Ruth M 8 Kendal, Hubert F 6 Kendal, servant Elizabeth Peach 34 nurse Woolton, visitor Ann E Bowness mar 48 cook Bristol, visitor Mary E 12 Middleton)
• 1891, Wisbech, Cambridge (res. 14 N Brink, Anna Mary Wilson mar 32 S Africa, visitor at Alexander Peckover)
• 1901, Islington, Middlesex (res. 149 Highbury New Park, Frank Wilson 48 deputation secretary Kendal, Anna M L 42 S Africa, Ruth M 18 Kendal, boarders at Amy Angus)
• Unmarried children:
• 1901, census Kendal, Westmoreland (res. Grammar School, Hubert Francis Wilson 16 Kendal, boarder at George Hy Williams)

Frank and Anna Mary Wilson worked for the Deep Sea Fisherman Society, and afterward for the Church Missionary Society in Sierra Leone.

Son Hubert was an officer in the RAMC during World War I in Africa, was a medical missionary with the United Free Church at Chitambo, and wrote a biography of his grandfather.

(Sources:  C1891E, C1901E, IGI, LivFT, Seaver, WilsonA)

Gerald A. T. Hodgson & Kate Agnes Livingstone

• Gerald (b. 1871)
• Kate, dau. of Oswell Livingstone & Kate Anderson (b. 1878, Glasgow)
• 1897, m.
1. 1898, son Charles G. S. Hodgson b. Harpenden, Hertford, England [m. Jane Simmons-Hodge 1929]
2. 1903, dau. Kathleen Hodgson b. [m. John Lawes-Wittenronge 1928]
3. 1907, dau. Gwynneth Hodgson b. [m. William Simmons-Hodge 1927, m. Robert Rodgers 1947]
• 1938, Gerald Hodgson d.
• 1938, Kate Hodgson d.
   
• Census Records:
• 1901, Huyton, Lancashire (res. Westmoreland Rd, Gerald A T Hodgson 30 machinist Harpenden, Kate A L 23 Scotland, Charles G S 2 Harpenden, servant Margaret Smith 22 nurse Liverpool, servant Kate Sumner 22 cook Kirby)

(Sources:  C1901S, LivFT)